The Freshman | |
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Directed by | Andrew Bergman |
Written by | Andrew Bergman |
Produced by | Mike Lobell |
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Cinematography | William A. Fraker |
Edited by | Barry Malkin |
Music by | David Newman |
Distributed by | Tri-Star Pictures |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $12 million[1] |
Box office | $21.5 million[2] |
The Freshman is a 1990 American crime comedy film written and directed by Andrew Bergman, and starring Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Bruno Kirby, Maximilian Schell, Penelope Ann Miller, and Frank Whaley. The plot revolves around a young New York film student's entanglement in an illicit business of offering exotic and endangered animals as specialty food items, including his being tasked with delivering a Komodo dragon for this purpose. The film received positive reviews from critics.